Pita Limjaroenrat, the leader of the Move Forward Party (MFP), is going through increased scrutiny over claims that he owns shares in a now-defunct media firm. Ruangkrai Leekitwattana, a Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) list-MP candidate, recently petitioned the Election Commission (EC) and the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) to investigate Pita, who can be the party’s prime ministerial candidate.
This follows Pita’s rationalization on Tuesday, stating that the iTV shares belong to his family, however seem like registered under his name, as he was appointed executor for the shares when his father handed away 17 years in the past. Pita additionally mentioned that the NACC had been briefed in regards to the shares’ existence, and he was not involved in regards to the recent try and discredit him.
However, Ruangkrai insisted that, based on firm registration paperwork from the Department of Business Development, as of April 27 final yr, Pita owned forty two,000 shares in iTV. Ruangkrai additionally highlighted that in iTV’s final shareholder’s meeting, the company’s executives claimed that iTV was still a media company, even though it had ceased operations.
Ruangkrai acknowledged that Pita might have already defined the situation regarding the shares to the NACC, however the model new petition for the EC pertains to Pita’s eligibility to run up to now common election. Fill in the blanks to this, Ruangkrai did not discover any point out of these iTV shares in the asset listing Pita declared to the NACC when he was sworn in as an MP after the last election. As a result, Ruangkrai also petitioned the NACC to analyze potential false asset declaration by Pita.
According to Ruangkrai, the Election Commission should act shortly in this case, as its choice could possibly change the result of the election. If the EC pursues the Constitutional Court’s opinion on the problem, the state of affairs would possibly end similarly to the media shareholding case involving Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, who’s now serving as a marketing campaign assistant for the MFP. Thanathorn was disqualified as an MP after the court docket ruled that he was ineligible to run within the final election because of his shares in V-Luck Media Co.
While Ruangkrai dismissed criticism that he was trying to discredit Pita, the media share case against Pita has received mixed reactions. Senator Somchai Sawaengkarn cited Section 1599 of the Civil and Commercial Code, stating that Pita could not declare the iTV shares didn’t belong to him, as he automatically obtained his part of the inheritance when his father handed away, reviews Bangkok Post..